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If you click on the вЂњ Google Earth TipsвЂќ category of this blog youвЂ™ll find many other tips for improving your experience with GE. Now, go enjoy an improved experience with Google Earth!

Click вЂњ Show web results in external broswerвЂќ if you want (or donвЂ™t want) to use an external browser when clicking on a link in a placemark description.

Automatically tilt while zooming вЂ“ turn this off if you prefer the old GE behavior which would not tilt as you zoom closer to the Earth.

You can also invert the mouse wheel direction so it makes sense for you whether forward or backward zooms you down/up.

Mouse Wheel Settings вЂ“ I recommend adjusting the speed of the mouse wheel setting which will increase your control for zooming up and down in GE.

This means you will fly more quickly when you double click or search for a location.

Fly-To Speed вЂ“ Set the Fly-to/Tour Speed to a faster speed if you use GE a lot.

When recording a tour вЂ“ this setting lets you determine how much data is stored (size of resulting file) while recording motions in a вЂњ recorded tourвЂњ.

Very handy for driving direction playback, or for guided tours. This lets you set the camera position relative to the line.

When creating a tour from a line вЂ“ You can also tour a drawn line in GE.

These settings effect the time between placemarks.

When creating a tour from a folder вЂ“ You can вЂњtourвЂќ a folder of placemarks.

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Also, you can use Google Earth offline better.

Disk Cache Size вЂ“ If you can afford the disk space, set your disk space cache to 2000 MB (2GB) вЂ“ the maximum GE will allow вЂ“ this will mean less downloading when viewing the same locations.

You can adjust it, but I recommend leaving it alone unless you change the amount of memory on your system.

Memory Cache SizeВ Starting back in Google Earth 4, this setting is automatically optimized.

(tip: use Control-M (or Apple-M on the Mac) to bring up the Overview Map) The Zoom relation is handy вЂ“ a smaller value has the zoom level more closely match your view.

Overview Map вЂ“ I suggest you adjust the map size to what works for your screen size.

A setting of 2.0 would be twice as high.В Also, it is best to return the exaggeration to 1 вЂ“ otherwise 3D buildings and other features wonвЂ™t work right. This makes the 3D terrain have exaggerated heights.

If you use Google Earth to look at mountains, try temporarily setting Elevation Exaggeration to 1.5 or higher (maximum of 3).

In severe cases, you can disable both and also uncheck the main вЂњ3D BuildingsвЂќ option in the sidebar to help keep things running smoothly. If you have slower performance, you may want to disable one or both of these. If you have a faster / newer graphics card you can probably leave both of those options enabled. However, higher quality means more 3D rendering which will slow performance. A higher setting of quality will improve the realism and detail of the 3D terrain and the new 3D imagery can looks quite amazing.

TerrainВ вЂ“ these settings can be very important for graphics performance and realism.

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The primary difference is 3D update speed, and support for features such as antialiasing, and polylines.

However, depending on your graphics card, DirectX may do better.

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Graphics Mode вЂ“ For my Windows computer, OpenGL seems to give better results.

I recommend using this setting (at least at вЂњMediumвЂќ) if your computer can do it, you will enjoy GE views even more. If you have a gaming machine, you can probably use вЂњHighвЂќ.

If you have a relatively new computer/graphics card you should try turning this setting to вЂњmediumвЂќ.

Anisotropic Filtering вЂ“ This advanced graphics feature improves resolution when viewing 3D at an angle.

3D View tab вЂ“ You will have to restart Google Earth after applying most of these settings.

Here are recommendations for each pane of the options (Read the Google Earth User Guide for settings not covered here): This opens a window of options with the following panes: 3D View, Cache, Touring, Navigation, General. To get to the GE options, select the menu вЂњ Tools -> OptionsвЂќ (or вЂњ Google Earth -> PreferencesвЂќ on the Mac). These options can greatly improve your experience with Google Earth by optimizing important graphics and data constraints, speeding up certain actions, or improving the quality of your views.

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If youвЂ™re wondering what Google Earth experts do to make things run faster or better, this post describes tips on how to set up your Google Earth options (вЂњPreferencesвЂќ on the Mac).